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CONTENTS ISSUE 29
MUSSOLINI’S

DOWNFALL

34 Uncover the horrors of Italy’s civil war and
the bloody path to Il Duce’s demise

Frontline Great Battles

14 Operation Barbarossa
ollow the crucial stages of Hitler’s doomed invasion SEDAN
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of the Soviet Union
16 March to Moscow
The newly created Eastern Front saw some of the
most horri c battles of WWII
18 Head to Head
How did Soviet and German soldiers match up in the
midst of the unforgiving Russian winter?
20 Commanders of Barbarossa
The bloodiest theatre of the war saw many gifted
leaders come to the fore for their countries
22 Defence of Pavlov’s House
The incredible story of one Soviet soldier’s refusal to
retreat in the face of certain death
24 Anatomy of a Sturmpanzer I
This aging self-propelled gun had its last outing in
Operation Barbarossa
26 Why did the invasion fail?
Historian and author Roger Moorhouse discusses
what went wrong with the German plan
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